Alaska
Alaska's ice road oil truckers are in a boom, and causing a backlash
There is no sign of the massive freight trucking recession in Alaska, where a boom in new energy projects is leading trucker pay well into six figures.
A tanker truck sits near a Parker Drilling Co. oil rig in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. Four decades after the Trans Alaska Pipeline System went live, transforming the North Slope into a modern-day Klondike, many Alaskans fe... [9869 chars]